possessions. The definition of Sarkamen was added the most important contribution by the archaeologists’ unearthing a set of old imperial jewellery in the niche of a natural rock at the bottom of the mausoleum crypt. The pieces of jewellery included: 2 earrings, 3 rings, 3 necklaces, 2 round-shaped hairpins, a heart-shaped pendant and 9 gold foils. The Jewelry, which vas probably only a portion of the funeral stock is chronologically rather solid and dates back to the second haif of the third and the beginning of the fourth centuries. tt originated from major centres. perhaps fom imperial workshops at Viminaclum, Serdica or most likely from Naissus. The gold find indicates that the dead woman occupied a senior position economically and socially. Each piece of the gold jewellery symbolizes something and may be associated with a cartain deity, thus more closely indicating the background of the location itseif. Also exceptional is the finding of nine gold foils, four of them containing imprinted imperial portraits from the front of coins belonging to the tetrarchy period (Diocletian and Constantius Chlorus). The gold foils wth descriptions of deity could represent the offerings pledged to the shrines of Jupiter Dolichenus, Juno, Mars, Apoto, and Sabasius. It is possible that those gold foils symbolize deification, apotheosis of the dead woman and glorification of the divine essence of the imperial house. The jewellery from this mausoleum is indirect evidence of the imperial and divine importance of the dead ‘woman, empress mother. Maximinus Daia (305-319), by proclaiming himself as Caesar on the eve of 1 May 305 AD at the Court of Diocletian's in Nicomedia, got the possibility to build in Sarkamen, miles from anywhere, the place of his birth, an edifice that would showto everyone in the empire that he was the ruler and god-given to lead the Romans to a better and more certain future. Hs early death prevented him from completing this grand project, and further excavations will show how much he had accomplished and future archaeological finds will reveal vinat he had intended to achieve wah this architectural undertaking. Patistyle of the Imperial Palace In 1969, discovery of gorgeous mosaic with depiction of Dionisius inspired further excavations. Remains of monumental palaces vith floor mosaics began to reveal... ‘fre you a developer? Try out the HTML to POF API Barenemny